They're also blatantly pandering to the Tea Party crowd. I very much doubt they're playing "Saturday Night Special" or "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew" anymore - or booing the Govnuh in "Sweet Home Alabama".

I saw them 3 or 4 times, the last time was in 2001, Leon had recently died and many people were wearing hats in his honor. They played 'Tuesday's gone'. 2 days later, ON A TUESDAY, 9/11 happened. Coincidence? Yes.

Pants full of macaroni!!:They're also blatantly pandering to the Tea Party crowd. I very much doubt they're playing "Saturday Night Special" or "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew" anymore - or booing the Govnuh in "Sweet Home Alabama".

/at least I saw them when Powell and Wilkeson were still alive

I saw them about 10 years ago, they did it then, but a lot has changed since then.

Krymson Tyde:Pants full of macaroni!!: They're also blatantly pandering to the Tea Party crowd. I very much doubt they're playing "Saturday Night Special" or "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew" anymore - or booing the Govnuh in "Sweet Home Alabama".

/at least I saw them when Powell and Wilkeson were still alive

I saw them about 10 years ago, they did it then, but a lot has changed since then.

Yeah, I saw them in like the late 90s when they definitely had more than 1 original member still around .

Icetech3:Zero respect for any band that uses a rebel flag in their imagery. I'm a racist prick and even i hate what that flag stands for....

Depends on what one means by what it stands for. It is but an object and therefore, like all other objects, it's what its used for that's good or bad, not the object itself. The Confederate flag can be used as a symbol of racism and hatred. Or it can be used as a symbol of where one if from. For any one person to say what any object represents to them is what is while at the same time refusing to recognize that it doesn't mean the same thing to other people is arrogant and self centered.

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf:For any one person to say what any object represents to them is what is while at the same time refusing to recognize that it doesn't mean the same thing to other people is arrogant and self centered.

Look at you attending community college like a big shot. Did you learn that little pseudo-intellectual tidbit in your Intro to Art class yesterday?

We're not talking about something somebody painted with their ass cheeks and hung in a modern art exhibit, we're talking about a flag that was created for a specific purpose and flown by a specific group of people attempting to achieve a specific goal in a specific era of the history of a specific country.

It means something specific. Flying the confederate rebel flag and trying to convince people it doesn't inherently symbolize racism is as sensible as flying the hammer and sickle and trying to convince people it symbolizes freedom.

You can claim it means whatever you want to you, people are just going to think that means you're too dumb to know the history behind it.

Pants full of macaroni!!:They're also blatantly pandering to the Tea Party crowd. I very much doubt they're playing "Saturday Night Special" or "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew" anymore - or booing the Govnuh in "Sweet Home Alabama".

/at least I saw them when Powell and Wilkeson were still alive

I saw them in July----Heart opened for them and I really wanted to see Heart. Stuck it out for about half of "Skynyrd". The did play Saturday Night Special, but to be fair I don't think the crowd understands the anti-gun message.

Pants full of macaroni!!:They're also blatantly pandering to the Tea Party crowd. I very much doubt they're playing "Saturday Night Special" or "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew" anymore - or booing the Govnuh in "Sweet Home Alabama".

Saw them at a hockey arena in Lewiston ME summer '76. Same arena where Ali beat Liston with the phantom punch in February '64. The Cate Brothers (current single - 'Union Man') opened. (for LS, not the boxing match)

Vegan Meat Popsicle:Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: For any one person to say what any object represents to them is what is while at the same time refusing to recognize that it doesn't mean the same thing to other people is arrogant and self centered.

Look at you attending community college like a big shot. Did you learn that little pseudo-intellectual tidbit in your Intro to Art class yesterday?

We're not talking about something somebody painted with their ass cheeks and hung in a modern art exhibit, we're talking about a flag that was created for a specific purpose and flown by a specific group of people attempting to achieve a specific goal in a specific era of the history of a specific country.

It means something specific. Flying the confederate rebel flag and trying to convince people it doesn't inherently symbolize racism is as sensible as flying the hammer and sickle and trying to convince people it symbolizes freedom.

You can claim it means whatever you want to you, people are just going to think that means you're too dumb to know the history behind it.

Isn't it the war flag anyways, and not merely the "south is great" flag anyways?

/not that it matters, I don't believe for a minute that the folks with the ron paul banners next to the confederate flag in Monroe County, Michigan are fine upstanding folks.

With that said, Cloudchasers posts always fit the mold of apologizing for or muddying the waters of douchebags. I don't know why a furry so constantly stands up for folks who would stone him in the town square if given the chance, but I guess if it works for him, that's fine.

Lynyrd Skynyrd's album Second Helping is a great example of how Record Plant turned music recording into an art form. If you're a recording junkie read up on that place during the 1970's.

The current county fair horsesh*t lineup of Skynyrd might draw the racists and rednecks, but that's not how the original band operated. As others have noted, the song Curtis Lowe is them giving props to a black man -- a white kid from the South in 1974 singing this by the way. On that same album is their cover of J.J. Cale's Call Me the Breeze, which is some of the finest Southern Boogie ever laid out on tape. The horn arrangement on the track still gives me an eargasm.

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf:Icetech3: Zero respect for any band that uses a rebel flag in their imagery. I'm a racist prick and even i hate what that flag stands for....

Depends on what one means by what it stands for. It is but an object and therefore, like all other objects, it's what its used for that's good or bad, not the object itself. The Confederate flag can be used as a symbol of racism and hatred. Or it can be used as a symbol of where one if from. For any one person to say what any object represents to them is what is while at the same time refusing to recognize that it doesn't mean the same thing to other people is arrogant and self centered.

That would be like using a swastika to proclaim that you are from Germany. EVERYBODY knows what the confederate flag symbolizes. And it ain't " Hey, I' from down south."

Vegan Meat Popsicle:Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: For any one person to say what any object represents to them is what is while at the same time refusing to recognize that it doesn't mean the same thing to other people is arrogant and self centered.

Look at you attending community college like a big shot. Did you learn that little pseudo-intellectual tidbit in your Intro to Art class yesterday?

We're not talking about something somebody painted with their ass cheeks and hung in a modern art exhibit, we're talking about a flag that was created for a specific purpose and flown by a specific group of people attempting to achieve a specific goal in a specific era of the history of a specific country.

It means something specific. Flying the confederate rebel flag and trying to convince people it doesn't inherently symbolize racism is as sensible as flying the hammer and sickle and trying to convince people it symbolizes freedom.

You can claim it means whatever you want to you, people are just going to think that means you're too dumb to know the history behind it.

dobro:Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: Icetech3: Zero respect for any band that uses a rebel flag in their imagery. I'm a racist prick and even i hate what that flag stands for....

Depends on what one means by what it stands for. It is but an object and therefore, like all other objects, it's what its used for that's good or bad, not the object itself. The Confederate flag can be used as a symbol of racism and hatred. Or it can be used as a symbol of where one if from. For any one person to say what any object represents to them is what is while at the same time refusing to recognize that it doesn't mean the same thing to other people is arrogant and self centered.

That would be like using a swastika to proclaim that you are from Germany. EVERYBODY knows what the confederate flag symbolizes. And it ain't " Hey, I' from down south."

Both of you are exactly the type I was talking about when I mentioned people who refuse to recognize that what something means to them isn't what it means to everyone else.

Actually, it symbolizes secessionism. Sadly, racism tends to be inherent to one race (the human race), but seceding from a nation over something that is not, say, genocide or apartheid or bigotry AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS, is something that can and should be avoided.

And I mean, I think slavery is one of those issues that went beyond "racism." I look at that word as the person who thinks this minority group or that minority group gets more government benefits, or won't hire/rent a house because of color, or thinks Obama was born in Kenya. Slavery falls under a worse category.

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf:Both of you are exactly the type I was talking about when I mentioned people who refuse to recognize that what something means to them isn't what it means to everyone else.

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf:Both of you are exactly the type I was talking about when I mentioned people who refuse to recognize that what something means to them isn't what it means to everyone else.

Vegan Meat Popsicle:Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: Both of you are exactly the type I was talking about when I mentioned people who refuse to recognize that what something means to them isn't what it means to everyone else.

vudukungfu:PC LOAD LETTER: Ed's got the same old axe. Sure he replaced the head 3 times and the handle twice, but it's still the same old axe.

Pretty much this.It's not like anything original has come out of them.I know one hard core fan.My old High School sweetheart. She's been stuck in 1973 since then.It's sad when dementia hits teens.

there was an obnoxious twit girl in school that would freak out at parties when Firebirds was played because some guy who bonked & left her said that was their song. farking drama queen made a terrible song even worse, and her lunacy comes to mind every time i hear that damn song.